Extracting contact effects in organic FETs

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1306-1311

  Hamadani, Behrang H ^a   Natelson, Douglas ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contact resistances; Nonlinear contact effects; Organic FETs (OFETs); True channel mobility

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVAPORATION; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CONTACT RESISTANCE; NONLINEAR CONTACT EFFECTS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (OFET); TRUE CHANNEL MOBILITY;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 23144456108     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2005.850301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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